saettone
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Italian
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Zamenis_longissimus.jpg/250px-Zamenis_longissimus.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]saetta (“arrow; thunderbolt”) + -one (augmentative suffix)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]saettone m (plural saettoni)
- Aesculapian snake (Zamenis longissimus)
- Synonym: colubro di Esculapio
- Hypernym: serpente
- (architecture) a strut of a truss
- Synonym: saetta
References
[edit]- saettone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana